AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
A MIXING " CREEP." (Received 10.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. A "creep" has occurred at Block Fourteen at Broken Hill. A railway line which runs through the Block to the British mine was left suspendid three , feet in the air. Little damage was done underground. THE NATIVE ATTACK OX A PURSER. (Received 10.55 a.m.) SYDXEY, this day. News from the Islands states that the attack made on Mr. Wellings, purser of the steamer South Australian, was quite unpremeditated. He was walking with several others, when a native, whom he had never seen before, struck him with an axe, almost severing his arm. Gangrene afterwards set in.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 65, 16 March 1908, Page 5
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107AUSTRALIAN CABLES. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 65, 16 March 1908, Page 5
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